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H. D. STONE. HEELING MACHINE.

No. 315,675. Patented Apnll l, 1885.

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H D STONE HEELING MACHINE.

Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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H D STONE HEBLING MACHINE.

Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE.

HENRIE D. STONE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOB TO THE ADAMS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

HEELlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,675, dated April 14,1885.

Application filed October 6. 1884. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRIE D. STONE, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented anlmprovement in Heeling-Machines, of .which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to and is an improvement upon the machine described in an application, Serial No. 125,152, filed March 22, 1884.

In this present invention I have arranged the parts so as to compress the heel after pricking it and also after driving the staples through it, the awls and staples entering the heel better when the latter is notin compressed condition.

The particular features in which my invention consists will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a heeling-machine embodying my invention, the dotted lines showing the arm and its connected parts turned outward to receive upon or to permit a boot or shoe to be taken from it. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a sectional detail of the upper end of the machine to show the driver-plate in its upper position or after the drivers have driven the staples into the sole and heel. Fig. 4. is a top view of the supporting-plate shown in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is a section of Fig. 4 in dotted line a; :r. Fig. 6 is a detail in partial elevation and section to show the staple-guides", staple-drivers, driver-plate, and the supporting-plate and some of their attached parts. Fig. 7 is a section of Fig. 5 in the line av, looking down upon the driver-plate. Fig. 8 represents the parts which are substituted for some of those shown in Figs. 4, 5,and 6, when the sole and heel are to be pricked for the reception of the staples; and Fig. 9 is a top view of the supportingplate on which the sole rests when it and the heel are being pricked.

The plate D", its conical pointed tubes 4, spurs 5, awls cl, plate 24, studs 23, plate g, stud 9', spring 9*, corrugators g pivoted at 15, sleeve 9, screw 9 staple guides 19, and staples s are all substantially as in the said applieation,where they are designated by like letters. The frame A has suitable hearings to in the driver-plate.

sustain the drivingshaft A, which is provided with abelt-pulley, A and a balance-wheel, A. The main shaft A has a pinion, A*, which engages the toothed wheel B loose on the shaft B, and provided at its end with the crank B, said shaft B having fast upon it a clutch, B of ordinary construction, preferably such as described in United States Patent No. 169,394, which is provided with mechanism whereby the shaft B is stopped after each complete revolution, the stopping-point of the shaft be ing with the crank-pin B in its lowest position. The crank-pin B receives the strap of a connecting-rod, Bflwhich is joined by apin, a, with the carriage C, having, preferably, dovetailed edges, and fitted into guideways O G, forming part of the frame-work. The upper end of the carriage G is provided with a box, which receives through it, and also through thelower end of the arm E, a bolt, a, by which the carriage and arm are so connected that the arm may be turned into the dotted-line position, Fig. 1., to remove or apply the boot or shoe to which the heel is to be attached. The arm E is provided with a locking device, shown as a balanced dog, a, having a lug, a, (shown in dotted lines. Fig. 1,) which,when the said lug is as in full lines in said figurc,keeps the arm E in vertical position. The arm E at its upper end is bored or countersunk for the reception, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2, ofthetubular shank of the driven plateb, (shown separately in Figs. 5, 6, and 7 the said plate being provided with projections b, to receive and, in connection with pins b to hold the drivers D which in this invention are made of flat steel bars having a width and thickness substantially equal to the crowns of.

the staples s, to be driven thereby. The arm E has a central bearing, 0, and a second hearing at its upper end to receivearod, D,which at its upper end has connected with it the heel-supporting plate 24, provided with a series of elongated holes, 22, through which the staples s are driven into the sole and heel. From the lower end of this plate depend the staple-guides 19, consisting, essentially, of narrow bars of metal grooved at their contiguous edges to receive the legs of the staple s, as best shown in Fig. 1, the said staple guides at their lower free ends entering suit-able holes The rod D, near its central part, is provided with an adjustable collar, e, below the said collar and between it and the bearing a is a spiral spring, e,which latter surrounds the said rod. The supportingplate 24 at its upper side is provided with the register-pins 23, which enter the register-holes previously made in the inner sole by the conical projections 5 of the supporting-plate D*, (see Fig. 8,) upon which the sole rests when'it and the heel are being pricked by the awls d. At its outer edge the supporting-plate is provided with ashield, H,which is extended downward to cover the staple-guides and the upper end of the arm E.

The normal condition of the parts previous to inserting the Staples 8 through the inner sole into the heel is as in Figs. 1 and 2, in which it will be noticed, especially in Fig. 1, that the driver-plate b is some distance below the supporting-plate 24. A boot or shoe with its heel temporarily connected thereto by one or more nails,- and with the sole and heel pricked, is placed upon the supporting-plate with the'parts inthe condition represented in Figs; 1 and 2, and the shaft B is started. Movement of the shaft elevates the carriage O, and with it the driver-plate b and supportingplate 24', the latter being lifted by the action of the spiral spring 0. As soon as the supporting-plate 24 has been lifted sufficiently to merely pinch the sole and its attached heel between it and the plate g, the supporting-plate 24 comes to rest or stops, and the spring is com- .pressed'asthe arm E continues to'rise, and during such movement of the arm E, after the supporting-plate has been arrested, the drivers b act against the crowns of the staples s, forcing them upward through their guides and: through the holes 22 in the supporting-plate and. into the sole and outward into the heel. As the crowns of the staples are brought snugly against the inner sole, the crank-pin l3 arrives nearly in its highest position,and thereafter as the crank-pin passes to its highest position, the staples having been driven, the heel is compressed and solidified, and the settle thus given to thestock is held by the corrugated legs of the staples. The outer portion or periphery of the heelwill. be corr u-" gated, substantially as in the application referred to, during the time that the heel is being compressed.

To enable the machine just described to prick the soles and heels preparatory to driving staples therein, the arm E will be removed, and another arm just like it will be connected with the carriage O by the same bolt, a. This arm so substituted for arm E will have secured to its upper end the metal plate (2 Fig. 8, shaped like the driver-plate b, but which is provided with a series of awls, d. The rod D, when pricking is to be done, has attached to its upper end a supportingplate, D, having conical-pointed tubes 4 and pins or studs 5, which in function and operation are substantially the same as parts designated by like letters in the said application. In this.

invention I have/however, added to the plate D a nail-receiving tube, 6, and I have added to the plate d a driver, marked 7, which, in

operation, drives a nail, 8, into the sole, and

, the said projection acting to stop the rod while the arm is descending, thus insuring the placing of the supporting-plate above the driven plate.

I claim-- 1. In a heeling-machine, the plate 9, against which the outer end of the heel is pressed, the reciprocating carriage, the arm E, connected therewith, and the driver-plate provided with the drivers 12*, combined with the rod D and its connected supporting-plate provided with the guides 19, to operate all substantially as described.

2. In a heeling-machine, the plate 9, against which the outer end of the'heel is pressed, the

carriage c, and the arm E, connected with the said carriage, and the driver-plate and drivers, and the rod D, provided at its upper end with the supporting-plate and extended into guides in the said arm, and the spring surrounding the said rod and normally keeping the supporting-plate elevated above the driver-plate. combined with means, substantially as described, to actuate'the said parts, whereby the sole and heel of the boot and shoe are first held between the plate 9 and the supporting-plate, upward movement of the arm E after the sole and heel are held in place between the said plates effecting the elevation of the driver-plate to drive the fastenings, further upward movement of the arm after driving the fastenings and securing the heel to the boots and shoes consolidating or compacting the heel, as set forth.

3. In a heeling-machine, the carriage and its arm provided at top with awls, and the rod D and supporting-plate and spring 6, and the plate g, combined with means to move the carriage, the'heel to be pricked being first caught between the supporting-plate and the plate gwhen the supportingplate and rod remain at rest, while the arm E and carriage continue to rise to enable the awls to penetrate the work, substantially as described.

4. In a heeling-machine, the supportingplate provided with the conical pointed tubes 4 and open-ended nail-tube 5, combined with the rod, its plate-(Z a series of awls, and a driver, 7, and with means, substantially as described, to operate the said rod and plate.

5. In a heeling-machine, the carriage and the arm E, pivoted thereon, combined with the locking device to hold the arm in upright position, all operating substantially as de scribed.

6. The carriage, the arm E, its plate, and

the rod D, the plate attached to its upper end, I combined to operate substantially as deand the spiral spring surrounding the shaft scribed.

combined with a projection to arrest the said In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name rod as the arm E is lowered substantially as to this specification in the presence of two sub- 5 described. scribing witnesses.

7. lhe arm E and its attached stapledrivi 4 ers combined with the spring-supported rod IDARHJ STOBE' held in hearings in the said arm, and provid- Witnesses: ed with a, supporting -plate having staple- G. XV. GREGORY,

1o guides, the said parts being constructed and B. J. NOYES. 

